Black duck
By: Janet Taylor Lisle
Publisher: Sleuth/Philomel
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780399239632
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers; Juvenile fiction; Prohibition; Fiction; Gangsters; Adventure stories; Friendship; History
Description: Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
Notes: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 4.8 8.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2007.